Wakf land scam: Karnataka will have to take a call, says Salman Khurshid

New Delhi: With a Karnataka government-appointed panel unearthing an alleged scam with regard to Wakf land, Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid today said it is a state level issue and they would have to take a decision on it.

However, if the state government wanted, it could refer the matter to the Union Government, he said.

Khurshid said, "This (wakf scam) is actually a state level issue, state level entitlement, so they will have to look at it," he told reporters outside Parliament.

Minority Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid said the multi-crore scam was a state level issue and they would have to take a decision on it.

Khurshid said that "nothing had come" to him till present regarding the Karnataka government's findings. Noting that a council for Wakf Boards existed at the central level, he said the Minority Affairs also has overall monitoring capacity and responsibility.